Free Web NovelChapter 34: Chapter 16 Dr. Lee
[March 28th]: A strange thing happened this morning; the entire base was suddenly shrouded in unexplained black smoke. However, it quickly dissipated.
[March 29th]: While eating lunch, I heard some news about the strange black smoke yesterday. It seems to have been caused by a failed experiment in Area E by Ugly Lee.
[March 30th]: I heard that Ugly Lee was fired because of the incident the day before yesterday. Congratulations, the base’s average appearance rating has suddenly risen quite a bit.
[March 31st]: The team leader fell ill, so I didn’t have to go to work today. I went to the city for a trip.
[April 1st]: I think I had too much fun yesterday. I feel weak and a bit feverish.
[April 2nd]: My condition worsened; I was bedridden and even had hallucinations. When a colleague came to bring me food, I saw his face as a piece of braised pork.
[April 3rd]: The quality of the food in the canteen has dropped significantly, making the meals more and more difficult to eat.
[April 4th]: Meals are hard to eat.
[April 5th]: Meals are hard to eat.
[April 6th]: Meals are hard to eat.
[April 7th]: Hmm~ Delicious!
The diary ends here.
In the following days, this person’s writing style returned to its previous.
The last line of the text was warped.
"..."
Mossy Mushroom’s hand was still on the page-turning motion.
After being motionless for quite a while, it suddenly flipped back to the previous page and started reading again.
"This... doesn’t feel right."
"If he has the surname Lee and he’s ugly, isn’t that the guy we’re looking for?"
"He was fired? Then why is he still in the base!"
Looking at the dates again, they coincide with the outbreak of Zombie Beasts.
And the three of them were led here by the mission line, could it be...
The more it thought about it, the more horrified it became.
"Whatcha looking at, Grass?"
"Waaahhhh, Cute Mushroom!"
A sudden voice from behind scared Mossy Mushroom, nearly making it lose its soul.
"You, you, you didn’t die?!"
As it turned its head, it saw Straw Man standing there, intact.
Zombie Beast Hounds were right behind him.
"I escaped, grass."
Straw Man smugly held up the fire extinguisher in his hand.
Just now, as he ran and released unlimited dry ice, he not only blocked the Zombie Beasts’ sight but also their sense of smell.
He then looped around and ran down the right fork, coming back out of the left fork.
"You’re just in time, let’s quickly find Ree Shil!"
"He might be in danger, Cute Mushroom!" freeωebnovēl.c૦m
Mossy Mushroom grabbed Straw Man and hurriedly ran towards Area E.
...
At this moment, in Test Area E.
"Sorry, there’s a problem."
On the other side, Dr. Lee stepped out of the computer room with an embarrassed look on his face.
"What’s the situation?"
Upon hearing that, Ree Shil walked in.
He saw the progress bar on the screen, which had stopped at 99%.
If he remembered correctly, it had been at the same progress about 5 minutes ago.
"I didn’t expect the final calculation step to get stuck."
"So, what do we do?"
"I guess there’s an issue with the terminal hardware on the other side. It seems we need to check it out. It’s in the equipment depot at the end of Area E."
Dr. Lee signaled for Ree Shil to follow him, heading deeper into Area E.
"..."
Ree Shil paused for a second before following.
"Ree Shil, I’m so envious you’re so handsome."
As they walked along, Dr. Lee suddenly started talking about this.
"Not at all."
Ree Shil humbly replied.
"Everywhere is handsome."
Dr. Lee glanced back at him, then said, "Also, your red-haired friend, I envy him too."
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Ree Shil was taken aback by the comment. Was Dr. Lee referring to Mossy Mushroom?
Didn’t he say it was ugly just before?
"His confidence is enviable, even though he’s so ugly, he lives with such self-confidence."
"...if he heard that, I guess only one of you guys would be left alive today."
"Of course, the most handsome of you guys is the green one. If only I had 1/10th of his looks."
"...I suspect that when you just praised me as handsome, you were actually insulting me."
During the conversation, the two men arrived at the end of the corridor.
This was also the deepest part of Area E.
In front of them was a giant iron gate.
The two metal wings on the left and right of the gate were 10 meters high and 4 meters wide. They looked thick and heavy, definitely not the kind you could kick open with one foot.
There was the sound of electrical current from the ceiling.
Click! xN
Multiple ceiling lights suddenly went out.
As the light dimmed, the atmosphere seemed to change with it.
Dr. Lee stopped his walk, his body trembling slightly.
His hand, through protective suits and glass helmets, pressed against his head, as if he had a headache.
"Do you know what my nickname among my colleagues is?"
"Ugly Lee, isn’t it appropriate? Hahaha."
For some reason, he spoke these cryptic words to Ree Shil while avoiding eye contact and with a strange tone in his voice.
"You probably haven’t experienced it, being pointed at every day."
"But worse than that is the pitying look of those self-righteous people."
These two phrases were met with a brief silence from Ree Shil.
Not to mention, he had actually experienced it before.
At this time, Dr. Lee’s face gradually revealed a look of insanity. He slowly turned toward Ree Shil, his dark eyes now exposed: "So, I once secretly vowed to make those good-looking people pay..."
Bang!
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw an iron stick smash the`.`
